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A.V. Club Interview with Wes Craven. Raised in a strict Baptist family in Cleveland, Ohio, and ensconced in academia as a young adult, Wes Craven doesn’t seem to fit the profile of a master of horror. But when he and producer Sean S. Cunningham (who went on to direct Friday The 13th) got the opportunity to make a drive-in movie on the cheap ...
May 3, 2024 · Wes Craven, American director and screenwriter who was known for his horror films, several of which—including The Last House on the Left (1972), The Hills Have Eyes (1977), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), and Scream (1996)—are classics of the genre.
1972 - 1983. Rising out of the mid-western suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, Wes Craven has become synonymous with genre bending and innovative horror, challenging audiences with his bold visions since the release of his first feature film, The Last House of the Left, which he wrote, directed, and edited in 1972. In the years since that controversial ...
Aug 31, 2015 · Wes Craven made a comicbook movie (“Swamp Thing”) before comicbook movies were cool, brazenly transformed an Ingmar Bergman scenario into a vicious grindhouse classic (“The Last House on the ...
Aug 30, 2015 · Wes Craven, the famed maestro of horror known for the Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream franchises, died Sunday after a battle with brain cancer. He was 76. Craven, whose iconic Freddy Krueger ...
Aug 30, 2015 · Wes Craven, man behind ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ and ‘Scream,’ dies at 76. Link Copied! Wes Craven, the visionary filmmaker who defined the horror genre with the long-enduring “A ...
3 days ago · (Photo by Rogue Pictures, Dimension Film, New Line, DreamWorks / courtesy Everett Collection) All 20 Wes Craven Movies Ranked by Tomatometer. Wes Craven’s debut, 1972’s scarring rape-revenge thriller The Last House on the Left, was among the first cross-cultural grindhouse flicks out there: It cost $87,00 to make and made back 36 times as much.
